Bert, I think your idea is better, because it handles the other situation
where one just wants to add a link to a document that has been uploaded
already, as well - the upload button would appear only when the document is
not yet there. And it would indeed remove the need to switch windows.
I can see that my suggestion could lead to further confusion, when someone
selects an [insert upload] menu option, only to discover that someone else
already uploaded a document with the same name (can easily happen when you
use the swiki as a kind of document management system on the intranet) and
maybe would not know you to proceed in this (currently default) situation.
A remaining issue though: how would you handle the following: the user
inserts a link to upload *+somedoc.doc+*, an upload button pops up because
somedoc.doc is not yet there, the user selects a file with name
anotherdocname.doc, uploads this file, and then..... rename the attachment?
... or rename the link? (preferably the latter) ... or just show an error
message (leaving the user in confusion)? (in many cases a user may be
convinced he/she as uploaded a document with the right name, while the OS
may have distorted it a little bit)
thanks for your quick reply - I hope someone will find the time to try it
out!
Hans
> On Tue, 9 May 2000, Baveco, Dr. J.M. wrote:
>
> > Apart from unraveling what the right settings should be, wouldn't it
> > be a good idea to add the option (while editing a swiki page) [insert
> > upload] in the menu? After selecting it the upload dialog should appear
> and
> > the selected document should be uploaded AND the link to the uploaded
> > document should be inserted directly at cursor position. As an
> additional
> > benefit we would avoid stupid misspellings (e.g. added spaces arising
> when
> > copying the name of a file).
>
> My first thought was: That would be cool, but it can't be done.
>
> But then I had an idea: We have a mechanism to create new pages - you just
> type the page name and get a link back to "create a page". So what if we
> just do the same for attachments not found? When serving a page that has
> an attachment link +filename+ but that file is not yet there, we could
> insert an upload button right there in the page. The mechanism behind the
> scenes would be similar to the append areas. And the upload code has to be
> redone anyway ;-)
>
> Hans, how does that sound?
>
> -- Bert
